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Fuskegee: 
Its Story 
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TRUSTEES- 
Mr. Geo. W. Campbell, Tuskegee Ala. 
Miss Abby W. May, Boston, Mass. 
Hon. H. Clay Armstrong, Montgomery, Ala. 
Mr. Lewls Adams, Tuskegee, Ala. 
Gen. O. O. Howard, Omaha, Neb. 
Hon. Henry D. Smith, Plantsville, Conn. 
Rev. T. S. Childs, D. D., Hartford, Conn. 
Mr. M. B. Swanson, Tuskegee, Ala. 
Mr. B. T. Washington, Tuskegee, Ala. 
Rev. Geo, Leonard Chaney, Atlanta, Ga. 
Rev. R. C. Bedford, Montgomery, Ala. 
These Trustees oiun and control, the entv^e p7-operty. There is a ma- 
jority of no denomination on the board. 



TUSKEGEE I(ORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL, 

For Training ColoT;=ed Teachers, 



TUSKEGEE, ALABAMA. 

BOOKER T. "W^SHIlSr&TOJSr, Friiicipal. 

OLIVIA J^. DA^V^IDSON, Ass't. Principal. 

m STORY iND m SONO. 

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Edited bv HELEN W. LUDLOW, 

OF HAMPTON INSTITUTE. 



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Normal School Steam Press, 

HainptoTi, Va. 

1864. 









Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1884 

by B. T. Washington, in the Office of the Librarian 

of Congress, at Washington. 



Printed by Colored and Indian 

Students at Hampton Institute, Va. 



THE STORY OF TUSKEGEE. 
A STORY OF PROGRESS, PLUCK AND PROVIDENCE. 



Fourteen years ago, in 1870, it is said, Northern teachers in the 
South for the purpose of teachingcolored schools, were frightened 
away by the whites from the town of Tuskegee, Alabama. Four 
years ago, the member of the Alabama Legislature from Tuskegee, 
a prominent democrat and present Speaker of the House, offered a 
bill which was passed by the General Assembly, appropriating $2000 
annually to pay the salaries of teachers in a Normal School to be lo- 
cated at Tuskegee for the training of colored teachers. 

The Act of Assembly being approved in February, 1881, the State 
Superintendent of Education in Alabama wrote to Gen. S. C. Arm- 
strong, Principal of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, 
Virginia, requesting him to nominate a fit person for Principal of the 
new school. He recommended Mr. Booker T. Washington of West 
Virginia, a graduate of Hampton Institute, class of '75. who, after two 
years' teaching of his people in his own state, had been put in charge 
of its Indian boys and had shown abilities of a very high order for 
such a position. Mr. Washington was appointed and at once entered 
upon his work. Arriving on the ground, he found no well appointed 
school-house ready for him or any prospect of one. The State appro- 
priated money only to pay the salaries of the principal and teachers, 
nothing for school-building, or outfit of furniture, books and appara- 
tus, or current expenses. For all these the colored people them- 
selves were to provide, if they would take advantage of the State's as- 
sistance. One week remained to prepare for the opening of the Nor- 
mal School. The new Principal utilized it in surveying the field ta 
see what need and encouragerhent for one existed. 



4 tuskegee: its story 

Tuskegee is a beautiful little town, with a high and healthy situa- 
tion and such as is rarely seen in the South, its quiet, shady streets 
and tasteful dwellings reminding one of a New England village. 
But while it has long been an educational centre of the State, with 
several colleges and academies of high repute for the whites, it is in 
the very heart of what is known as the " black belt" of the Southern 
States, in the midst of a dense population not yet emerged from the 
shadows of slavery. Mr. Washington wrote in his first letter to his 
Hampton friends : " On Friday 1 rode about fourteen miles into the 
country to visit the closing exercises of one of the teacherSi^ From 
this trip I got some idea of the colored people in the country. Never 
was I more surprised and moved than when I saw at one house two 
boys, thirteen or fourteen years old, perfectly nude. They seemed 
not to mind their condition in the least. Passing on from house to 
house, I saw many other children five and six years old in the same 
condition. It was very seldom that I saw any children decently 
dressed. If they wore clothing, it was only one garment and that so 
black and greasy that it did not look like cloth. As a rule, the col- 
ored people all through this section are very poor and ignorant, but 
the one encouraging thing about it is that they see their weakness 
and are desirous of improving. The colored teachers in this part of 
Alabama have had few advantages, many of them having never at- 
tended school themselves. They know nothing of the improved 
methods of teaching. They hail with joy the Normal School, and 
most of them will be among its students." And, on the whole, Mr. 
Washington concludes: " If there is one place in the world where a 
good Normal School is needed, it is right here. What an influer.ce 
for good ; first on the teachers, and from them on the children and 
parents." 

Before the week was over, thirty teachers had been enrolled as 
students, one of the colored churches opened its doors to the new 
enterprise, with a couple of neighboring shanties thrown in for reci- 
tation rooms, and the Tuskegee Normal School declared its indepen- 
dent existence on the Fourth of July, 1881. 



AND ITS SONGS. 5 

The good will manifested toward the school by both white and 
colored was from the first a great encouragement. Mr. Washington 
wrote — quoting again his first letter — "I have had many kind words 
of encouragement from the whites, and have been well treated by 
them in every way. The trustees seem to be exceptional men. 
Whether I have met the colored people in their churches, societies^ 
or homes, I have i-eceived their hearty co-operation, and a 'God 
bless you.' Colored preachers too seem to be highly in favor of the 
work, and one of the pastors here, fifty years old,is one of my students.' 

The numbers rapidly increased, students coming from more dis- 
tant parts of the State, and finding board in the town. On further re- 
quest, Miss Olivia A. Davidson was recommended and appointed as 
Assistant Principal, another graduate of Hampton and afterwards of 
the Framingham Massachusetts Normal School. They employed a 
third Hampton graduate as assistant teacher. The Hampton trio- 
held bravely on with work enough for all, but now a new difficulty 
presented itself. 

Most of the students were without means to pay for even one 
full year's course. They had come with effort under the impulse of 
a new longing for improvement. They had found m^ore profit than 
they had expected, and it was hard to give up. One after another, as 
their little stock was exhausted, came with tears in his eyes to 
Mr. Washmgton, to say: "My money is used up and I must go." Some, 
by cooking for themselves and living on little, tried to hold on through 
the year. Mr. Washington says: "I remembered the day I came to 
Hampton with but fiftA'' cents in my pocket and she gave me a chance 
to help myself." Oh that it were possible — could it be possible to 
give such a chance to these ? 

While this question — hardly more than a wish — was rising in the- 
hearts of the Hampton workers, an old^plantation was thrown upon 
the market at Tuskegee, on unusually low terms ; a hundred aci^es of 
fairly good land at $500, $200 down, with a farmhouse and out build- 
ings in tolerable repair. A bold idea took possession of the young 
Principal. He wrote to the Treasurer of Hampton Institute and 
asked if it would be practicable to lend two hundred dollars to plant 
a Hampton seed in Tuskegee. The answer came — " To lend you 



O TUSKEGEE : ITS STORY 

Hampton School funds — no. To lend you mine at my own risk — yes, 
and here is my check; and God speed }^ou." 

This generous trust was not careless or misplaced. The advan- 
tage of the purchase was apparent and the Treasurer knew his man. 
The two hundred dollars clinched the bargain for the land, and within 
two months were back in their owner's hands. Before three more, Mr. 
Washington wrote to his generous friend: 

Tuskegee, Dec. i8, 1881. 

" Four months and a half ago, without a dollar of our own, we 
contracted to buy a farm of one hundred acres at a cost of $500, on 
which to permanently locate our school. To day, the last dollar has 
been paid." And how.? The 5^oung people went to work in the South, 
and their story was told in the North. Over a hundred dollars was 
raised right in Tuskegee by the efforts of teachers and students, by 
an "entertainment," a fair, and subscriptions of both colored and white 
friends. While this effort was going on, they were pleasantly sur- 
prised by a gift of one hundred dollars from a Massachusetts lady, a 
liberal friend of Hampton, and by one from the vacation students of 
the Hampton School — those remaining through the summer to work 
and study in the night school to earn money to keep themselves 
through the course. Entering with hearty interest into Mr. Wash- 
ington's efforts for their Alabama brothers, they raised, through con- 
certs and otherwise, nearly one hundred dollars toward the enter- 
prise. A friend in Connecticut who had been favorably impressed by 
his observation of Mr. Washington's work with the Indians, gave two 
hundred dollars and promised a hundred more for tools, seeds, etc, 
if the balance then due should be raised in Alabama b)^ January ; a con- 
dition more than fufilled, as we have seen. 

So the new departure was made. The farm was deeded to a 
board of trustees, whose names may be read on a page preceding 
this sketch. They include representative names of North and South, 
white and colored, with a majority of no sect. The preparatory class 
of the increasing school took possession of the old farm house, and as 
soon as the early Southern spring opened, the boys went to work 
with joyful hearts to put in their first crops of corn and cotton. 

Faith and will and working power grow by exercise. 



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" As soon as the farm is equipped, " wrote the Principal, " We 
'€xpect to direct our energies toward getting up a school building by- 
next term. The present buildings on the farm will be entirely insuffi- 
cient to accommodate the school next term. We may seem to be 
planning much, but remembering that God helps those who help 
themselves, we will go forward," 

How they went forward, appears from the report of the exercises 
held on March 30th, 1882, in combined celebration of the close of the 
school's first session, and the laying of the corner stone of a new 
frame building by Hon, Waddy Thompson,County Superintendent of 
Education. With eloquent words, he bade the workers Godspeed, 
trusting that their labors might prove a blessing to their race, while 
a colored pastor feelingly exclaimed, " I thank God for what I have 
witnessed to day — something I never saw before, nor did I ever ex- 
pect to see it. I have seen one who but yesterday was one of our 
owners, to-day lay the corner stone of a building devoted to the ed- 
ucation of my race. For such a change,let us all thank God ! " The 
report stated: " During the year, one hundred and twelve students 
from various parts of the State have attended the school, and now 
during vacation, many of them are doing good work as teachers by 
which to earn money to return next year. By the aid of the people 
in Tuskegee in labor and money, and help from the" Northern friends, 
the lumber is now on the ground, the building is being framed and 
we are making every effort to have it completed by the beginning of 
the next session, Sept. ist, 1882. " 

At large meetings in New York and Brooklyn, convened that 
spring in the interest of Hampton Institute, the story of the " young 
Hampton " at Tuskegee was also told. Its Principal and Assistant 
Principal spent their summer vacation in the North in the cause, 
with all the introductions and encouragements that Hampton could 
give. October 15th, Miss Davidson wrote to the Southerji Workmmi 
published by Hampton Institute: " As I wrote last spring, we had 
received for our school building, at the close of school, $1000. Dur- 
ing the summer, I am glad to be able to tell you, we succeeded in 
Ttaising the remainder necessary, in the North, so that the money for 



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the building is provided for. The work on it is being rapidly carried 
forward and we hope to go into it the first of the coming month, a 
great relief from our present very crowded quarters. School opened 
the 4th of September with quite a full attendance, and now the num- 
ber is more than double that of this time last year, and we have ap- 
plications from many who desire to come in later. During the sum 
mer, a number of our most advanced students taught school in this 
and adjacent counties, and reports came to us from many of these 
places, of the superior work done by these compared with that of 
others who had not had the year's training. " 

Another pleasant result of the Normal School's influence is re- 
corded in the same letter. "That the denominational spirit is very 
strong here is shown by the fact that the colored public schools have 
been taught for years as separate denominational schools, the Bap- 
tist children attending the Baptist, and the Methodist children, the 
Methodist school. This year, however, we have gained the consent 
of the people to the union of the two on our farm, as training school 
for the Normal, under the care of two Hampton graduates. To-day, 
for the first time here in many years, the children of the two denom- 
inations met in school together. This school will, when all are in, 
number over three hundred, and the Normal School one hundred, so 
that by Christmas we shall have on our farm in daily attendance of 
public and Normal School students, perhaps moi;e than four hundred. 
When we realize what the work of these students is to be, how 
necessary it is for them to be well fitted to go into this work with 
earnestness and ability, and how far in the future their influence for 
good or bad may extend, can we doubt the importance of the work 
before us ?" 

*The new building stands upon the site of the old farm house, 
pleasantly shaded by ancient cedars, mulberries and magnolias, and 
was named Porter Hall after one of its chief contributors. It is a 
frame building, 67 x 58 ft. and three stories high without the base-- 
ment; containing six recitation rooms, a large chapel, a reading room 
and library, a boarding hall, and in the third story, dormitories for 
girls. The young men continued to board in the town, working their 



AND ITS SONGS. g 

way, to some extent, on the school farm. The Principal and teach- 
ers rented a small cottage near the place, and the primary training 
school occupied what had been the stables. 

After moving into its new quarters, the school work went vigor- 
ously on through the winter, with 130 students, representing nearly 
every part of the State, with some even from Georgia. 




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And now came a new and great encouragement. In February, 
1883, the State Legislature increased the appropriation for the school^ 
from two to three thousand dollars annually, on the recommendation 



lO TUSKEGEE : ITS STOKY 

of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, Hon. H. Clay Armstrong, 
The Committee on Education reported it unanimously to the House 
and the Governor recommended its passage. As some of the mem- 
bers who were ignorant of the character of the school, raised objec- 
tions to this increase at a time when, by defalcations of the State treas- 
urer, reported only the day before, the State had lost a quarter of a 
million, the Speaker of the House, Col. W. F. Foster, member from 
Tuskegee, an ex-Confederate soldier, left the chair and in an elo- 
quent and effective speech in praise of M:. Washington and his work 
urged its passage. On his conclusion, the bill passed through all its 
readings, by a nearly unanimous vote. It promptly passed the Sen- 
ate also, received the- approbation of the Governor and became a law. 
Mr. Washington was invited to make a statement of his work before 
the committee of the Senate on education, and especial interest was 
manifested in its industrial features. 

About the same time, iMr. Vv'ashington was notified by the State 
Supt. of Education, Hon. H. Clay Armstrong, that, on his recommen- 
dation, $500 had been awarded to the School from the Peabodyfund. 

In the letter announcing this good fortune to the Southern 
Workman, Mr. Washington reports other pleasing encouragements, 
external and internal, from friends North and South, and in the spir- 
it of the school. 

" We had a pleasant two-days' visit last month from Rev. R. C. 
Bedford, of the i^merican Missionary Association, pastor of the Con- 
gregational Church of Montgomery. He spoke one evening to the 
students and citizens in our chapel. It was crowded and he seemed 
to impart new life to everybody. On Thanksgiving Day we had ex- 
ercises in the chapel, and addresses were delivered to the students and 
visitors by the pastors of the white Baptist and Presbyterian church- 
es and by one of the colored pastors. Thursday and Friday evenings 
and on Saturday, Miss Davidson, assisted hy the other teachers, held 
a fair to raise means for the school. All thought that at the fair, the 
people showed in a practical way that the}'^ were willing to help them- 
selves all they could. We netted from th.e fair, $145. $45 of this 
amount came from a " jug-breaking " Friday evening. The jugs had 



AND ITS SONGS. II 

been given out a month previous to twelve students who left few per- 
sons unbegged for a nickel. 

Soon after we moved into the building, the young men were told 
that a large amount of earth would have to be removed from the 
basement before it could be completed, and if we had to hire it done, 
the cost would be $30 or $35. One young man suggested to the oth- 
ers,that since friends had been kind enough to pay the greater part need- 
ed to put up the building, students ought to be willing to give in work 
whatever they could. A proposal was made that they should be di- 
vided into squads and each squad work every day in turn for dn hour 
after school. This was done willingly by all, and the basement was 
. cleared out. 

Within a few days, a kind friend from Connecticut has sent us 
means to purchase an additional forty acres to our farm, making in 
all 140 acres. 

By invitation of Capt. Wilson, Supt. of Education of Bullock 
county, I go to hold a two days' Institute with the colored teachers of 
his county. I will try to send you an account of my trip." 

With such encouragement and such spirit, growth was inevitable. 
The school could not stand still. Enlargement was but a question 
of time and a short time. 

In his first letter from Tuskegee in '81, Mr. Washington had writ- 
ten: "An institution for the education of colored youth can be but a 
partial success without a boarding department. In it they can be 
taught those correct habits which they fail to get at home. Without 
this part of the training, they go out into the world with untrained 
intellects and their morals and bodies neglected. After the land is 
paid for, we hope to get a boarding department on foot as soon as 
possible." 

In April, '83, the school enjoyed a pleasant visit from General J. 
F. B. Marshall, the honored Treasurer of the Hampton Institute, 
whose friendly hand had been the first to start the young enterprise 
on its way. His visit gave it new cheer. He wrote to the South- 
ern Workman of the situation there: "The farm contains one hun- 
dred and forty acres, and the boys are at work clearing a field for su- 



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gar-cane which grows well here. They also raise cotton and sweet 
potatoes, peaches, etc. To enable them to train the students prop- 
erly, they must have them board at the school. The new building 
will furnish in its upper story dormitories for the girls, but they 
have no quarters for the young men, who are at present boarding 
round in the town at a great disadvantage both as to training and 
labor. A building is needed for the accommodation, of say one hun- 
dred young men, which Mr. Washington says will cost about $8000 if 
their labor can be made available in its construction. For this 
purpose, he proposes to build of brick made on the farm which has 
excellent clay. The young men are impatient to be set to work on 
their building ; and as soon as money enough can be raised to pay the 
foreman, and start the brick-yard, it will beput in operation. The wood- 
lot is close to the clay, and fuel can be got for the hauling. Two 
hundred dollars will secure a foreman long enough to make all the 
bricks needed for the building. As bricks are always in demand in the 
town which has no kiln, it would be a paying permanent industry. To fin- 
ish the basement of the present building for a kitchen and dining room* 
$250 are needed. I hope the friends of Negro education and self-help 
will come forward and furnish Mr. Washington with funds to com- 
plete the work he has so well begun." 

The next event in the histor)^ of the Tuskegee school was the cel- 
ebration of its second anniversary, combined with the dedication of 
Porter Hall whose corner stone had been laid the year before. The- 
dedication address was delivered by Rev. Geo. L. Chaney of Atlanta, 
formerly of Boston, one of the trustees of the school; and eloquent^ 
speeches v/ere also made by R^v. Morgan Calloway, the associate in 
Emory College, of its President, Dr. Haygood, author of "Our Broth- 
er in Black," and by Rev. Mr. Owen, a colored pastor from Mobile. 
There was, as yet, no graduating class, but the students' recitations 
and drill and sweet singing added to the interest of the day which 
closed the second year of progress. 

During the summer, a small frame cottage was put up with four 
rooms to hold sixteen young men, and three board shanties near the 
grounds were rented, roughly accommodating thirty six more. In 



AND ITS SONGS. ■ I3 

September, a boarding department was opened for both sexes, and as 
man}'- young men as could be provided .for availed themselves gladly 
of the chance to work out half or nearly half of their board at the 
school. As soon as there is room for them, all non-residents of Tus- 
kegee will be required to board at the school. 

In September also, a pleasant surprise came to the workers in an 
unsolicited gift of $100, from the Slater Fund, and in November, the 
presentation of their needs to its efficient agent, Dr. Haygood, by 
their friend and trustee, Rev. R.C. Bedford, brought a response double 
their hopes, in an appropriation of $1000, for the equipment of their 
industrial department. 

With this impetus, a carpenter shop was built and started, a wind 
mill set up to pump water into the school building, a sewing ma- 
chine bought for the girls' industrial room, mules and wagons for the 
farm, and the farm manager's salary paid for nine months. 

All through the summer, as through the previous one, the Prin- 
cipal and his associate had been earnestly presenting their cause at 
the North, with so much encouragement that the work on the new 
building was vigorously begun in the fall and winter. Mr. Washing- 
ton could write triumphantly to the Soiithern Workman Feb. 15, 1884: 
"The new building which has now been begun will cost $10,000, and 
over 15,000 of this amount have been raised." 

The extraordinary severity of the vt inter furnished its own spur 
to the» work. Mr. Washington wrote Feb. 15th: " Not less than 
ten hands went up in the chapel a few nights ago, in answer 
to the inquiry how many of the young men had been frost- 
bitten during the cold weather. The teachers were not sur- 
prised at this ; on more than one night when making a tour of the 
rooms at a late hour to give a comforting word when there were no 
more blankets to give, have the young men been found hovering 
around the fire while the cold wind poured in through the roof, sides and 
floor of the room. While there has been this suffering, so anxious 
have the students been to remain in school that there has been al- 
most no murmur of complaint. They have shown cheerfulness 
throughout. Must they be asked to endure the same another winter } 
We have faith to believe not. They want nothing done for them 



14 TUSKEGEE : ITS STORY 

which they can do for themselves. They are now digging out the 
basement for the new building, and preparing the clay to begin 
moulding bricks as soon as the weather will permit." 

In March, at public meetings held for Hampton Institute in 
Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and Boston, the cause of the young 
Hampton also was again presented with marked success. In his forcible 
speech at these meetings, Mr. Washington was able to say: " Our young 
men have already made two kilns of bricks and will make all required 
for the needed building. From the first we have carried out the plan 
at Tuskegee of asking help for nothing that we could do for our- 
selves. . Nothing has been bought that the students could produce. 
The boys have done the painting, made the bricks, the chairs, tables 
and desks, have built a stable and are now building a carpenter 
shop. The girls do the entire housekeeping, including the washing, 
ironing and mending of the boys' clothes. Besides, they make gar- 
ments to sell and give some attention to flower gardening." 

The new building, 43x76 feet and four stories high, is to be called 
Alabama Hall. On deliberation it was decided to devote this one to the 
girls' dormitories, with dining room, kitchen, laundry, parlor, reading 
room, and librafy for all the students and teachers, the young men then 
to occupy Porter Hall which will accommodate about one hundred. 

The reconstructionary influence of the new effort has been strik- 
ingly shown already in its very beginnings. As Mr. Washington 
said in his speech : " Some of the country whites looked at first with 
disfavor on the establishing of this Normal School in Tuskegee. It 
turned out that there was no brickyard in the whole county. Farm- 
ers and merchants wanted to build, but bricks must be brought from 
a distance or they must wait for one house to burn down before build- 
ing another. The Normal School, with student lobor, started a 
brick yard. Two kilns of bricks were,burned. The white people 
came from miles around for bricks. From examining bricks, they 
were led to examine the workings of the school. From a discussion 
of the brick yard came the discussion of the Negro's education ; 
and thus many of the "old masters " have been led to become inter- 
ested in Negro education. Harmony will come in proportion as the 



AND ITS SONGS. 15 

black man gets something that the white man wants, w^hether it be of 
brains or material." 

In a speech before the National Educational Association at 
Madison. Wis. this year, Mr. Washington said: "About one month 
ago, one of the white citizens of Tuskegee who had at first looked on 
the school in a cold, distant kind of [a. way, said to me: ' I have just 
been telling the white people that the Negroes are more interested in 
education than we and are making more sacrifice to educate them- 
selves.' At the end of our first year's work, some of the whites said: 
' We are glad that the Normal School is here because it draws people 
and makes labor plentiful ' At the close of the second year, several 
said that the Normal School is beneficial because it increases trade, 
and at the close of the last session, more than one has said that the 
Normal School is a good institution : it is making the colored peo- 
ple in this State better citizens. From the opening of the school to 
the present,the white citizens of Tuskegee have been among its warm- 
est friends. They have not only given of their money, but they are 
ever ready to suggest and devise plans to build up the institution^ 
When the school was making an effort to start a brick-yard, but was 
without means, one of the merchants donated an outfit of tools. 
Every white minister in the tov>rn has visited the school and given 
encouraging remarks. The President of the white college in 
Tuskegee makes a special effort to furnish our young men work that 
they may be able to remain ir school. 

A former owner of 75 or 100 slaves and now a large planter and 
merchant said to me a few days ago : 'I can see every day the change 
that is coming. I have on one of my plantations, a colored man who 
can read and write and he is the most valuable man on the place. In 
the first place, I can trust him to keep the time of the others or with 
anything else. If a new style of plow or cotton planter is taken on 
the place, he can understand its construction in half the time that any 

of the others can.' " 

In April, the school had the pleasure of a visit from the Lady 
Principal of Hampton Institute, an extract from whose letter to 
Hampton from Tuskegee will be found in another part of this pam- 
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In May, the first number was issued of " The Soitther7i Letter, 
Devoted to the education of the Jicad, hand and heart . To be published 
7no'nthly by the Tuskegee Normal School. Booker T. Washington, editor, 
Warren Logan, business jnanager." This little sheet, at present 9x12, 
will undoubtedly grow, and a good v/ay to encourage the industrial 
and educational work at Tuskegee will be to send the 50 cents for its 
year's subscription. Its first number contained the pleasant news that 
to the hundred acres of land with which the school started, its Con- 
necticut friend had added an adjoining tract of 480 acres of farming 
and wood land ; and that, by the gift of a job printing press 
through a Boston lady, card and bill head printing had been added 
to the industries of Tuskegee. 

The June number of the Sotither7i Letter contained a report of 
the third anniversary of the Norm.al school, on May 29, 1884. 
Many visitors were present, white and colored. The great interest was 
in the development of the department of industrial training which 
now included besides the farm, the Slater carpenter shop and black- 
smith shop, the printing office, the girls' industrial room, and the 
brick yard, where the students were making brick for Alabama Hall. 
The morning exercises were as usual, inspection, recitations and re- 
view of the current news, and the speaker of the afternoon was Prof. 
R. T. Greener, of Washington, who delivered a very practical 
and eloquent address. Reporters were present from Montgomery and 
Tuskegee, and an extract from the report of the Tuskegee Weekly 
News, the white democratic paper of the place, will be found among 
the outside testimony on another page of this pamphlet. 

The school then broke up for its summer work. About fift)^ of 
its students are teaching this vacation ; fifteen remain to work on 
the farm, at the brick yard and on Alabama Hall during the summer, 
and attend night school. Nine of them have been attending night 
school and wortving all day, through the past term, to earn money to 
keep themselves in the day classes next year. 

^; It is evident that this well lettered Institution has not only added to 
its course in the three R's, as Miss Davidson's bright letter claims, "the 
three C's — cotton, corn and cane" — but teaches also the three P's — 
Providence, Pluck and Progress. 



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BUILDINGS IN WHICH THE SCHOOL WAS STARTED. 



XS TUSKEGEE : ITS STORY 

The Principal and his associates are doing their part again to de- 
monstrate their faith in them. The new move for this summer's cam- 
paign is^the sending out by the school of a quartette of singers, three 
of them its students and one a teacher, to sing at the various summer 
resorts in New England and the Middle States. Their object is to 
raise the $4000 now required for the completion of Alabama Hall. 
Mr. R. H. Hamilton, who has had much experience with the well 
known "Hampton Singers," has kindly consented to lead them. They 
will also be accompanied by the Principal. The young men compos- 
ing the company of singers, having no money to give for the work at 
Tuskegee, freely give their services and their songs during the sum- 
mer. They will sing the "plantation songs" as they hear their parents 
sing them in Alabama, without any polish. It is hoped that they 
will sing their way to the hearts and the help of the people. 

The story of Tuskegee is not finished, but having brought it down 
to the present moment, we look to the friends of general education 
and self-help for the next chapter. 



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LIFE IN AND AROUND THE SCHOOL. 

FROM A TEACHER'S STANDPOINT. 

BY WARREN LOGAN. 



HOW IT PAYS. 

It is sometimes asked, Does it pay to educate the Negro ? Well, 
that depends, for him as for others, upon how he is educated. 

An old colored man in a cotton field in the middle of July, lifted 
his eyes toward heaven and said : "De cotton is so grassy, de work is 
so hard, an' de sun am so hot, dat I believe dis darkey am called to 
preach." 

There is no doubt that some of the would be teachers, as well as 
the would be preachers, in their desire for education are inspired, as 
some of their brothers in white are, by a yearning not for usefulness 
but for ease. Simply to gratify them in this would certainly not pay 
for generous contributions to their education. 

But if alon^ with mental training, the Negro is taught that, as 
President Garfield told the students at Hampton Institute, "Labor 
must(5<?, and labor must be free;" that in free labor is dignity and pros- 
perity and self-respect ; if with his book learning, he learns to respect 
the rights of others, to do right from a love of right, and is given 
some useful trade for his start in life, why will it not pay handsomely 
to educate him ; to make him an intelligent and useful American citi- 
zen instead of an ignorant and dangerous one ? 

This is the work of the industrial school. This is the work of 
Tuskegee, the very place for our cotton field candidates. 

The great need of the South is competent school teachers and 
skilled mechanics. The demand for both is much greater than the 
supply. Colored lawyers might perhaps be^^dispensed with for a 
while, but colored teachers, able to use both head and hands, are an 
actual, present necessity. 



20 TUSKEGEE : ITS STORY 

Tiie great majority of our Tuskegee students hope to become 
teachers among their people. Almost all of them come from the 
country, and are good material. Visitors are struck with their splen- 
did physical proportions. Most of them are stalwart, robust young 
people, well able to work their way in the world and eager for the 
opportunity. They have had poor home training, and it is necessary 
to teach them correct habits of living, but they evince an eagerness 
to learn that is as surprising as it is encouraging, undergoing, in many 
instances, much privation and discomfort to keep in school. It is 
gratifying to watch the change that gradually takes place in their 
personal appearance, in clothes and manners, and expression of face. 

The avidity with which they take hold of their studies is in 
striking contrast with the indifference and even repugnance to text- 
books we hear of as common in white schools. The novelty of learn- 
ing, to the Negro, gives it an attractiveness which is a potent stimu- 
lus to mental efifort. The girls, who number nearly half the school, or- 
ganized last term a "reading and talking club," in which they read 
and talk about those things that tend to refine their manners and 
brighten their minds. The boys have their debating societies, which 
are of some profit as well as fun. The disposition to improve them- 
selves is encouraged by the teachers, who supply them, as far as is in 
their pov/er, with good reading matter, and direct their efforts. Talks 
on the topics of the day are given often, and they are daily informed 
and examined on the current news. 

The course of study as planned, extends through four years, 
but few can complete it Vvathout staying out for as much as a year to 
earn money. We do not think they will lose by this in the end. We 
hope to graduate our first class next year. The course is thorough in' 
English lessons, composition and reading, with studies in literature. 
It extends in mathematics through elementary geometry, and in- 
cludes geography, history, civil government with special study of the 
school laws of Alabama, book keeping, some study of the natural 
sciences, mental and moral philosophy, free hand drawing, vocal 
music, and the methods and practice of teaching. In the model 
school connected with the Normal, two regular teachers are employed, 



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under whom our students practice as teachers. 

As an industrial school, Tuskegee regards its manual labor depart- 
ment not merely as a means to secure education, but as a valuable 
part of education. Work is required of all. The boys are taught 
practical farming, carpentry, printing, brick making, black-smithing 
and painting; the girls, sewing and house keeping. The school hopes 
to add other industries as it becomes able. 

We do not find that the manual labor system interferes seriously 
with the studies. We believe that in the long run, it will be found 
far more of a help than a hindrance, through its influence upon 
character and habits of industry. Of course, it makes a busy day for 
students and teachers, from the rising bell at half past five, and the 
work bell calling some after breakfast to their work shops or cotton 
fields and others to the fresh morning study hour, to the bell for 
"lights out " at half past nine at night, when the sleep of the laborer is 
sweet. A busy day, but Tuskegee has work to do and means to do it. 



TUSKEGEE : ITS STORY 



LETTERS FROM STUDENTS 



The following letters, written by students to friends, and publish- 
ed by permission in the Southern Letter, give an idea of what the 
school is doing for the students and of what they, in turn, are doing 
for themselves and their people : 

A NIGHT STUDENT. 

Tuskegee, Ala., May 12, 1884. 
Dear S — .• I have made up my mind to educate myself. I am now 
working at the brick-yard. I am working in the day and attending 
school at night. In this way I am learning and making money too. 
The school pays me so much a month for my work. I expect to- 
work hard and save money, to go in the day school next term. We 
have a good teacher in the night school. I do not expect to come 
home inside of three months. 

Your brother, 

A. J. Wood. 



TEACHING AND PLOWING. 

Tuskegee, Ala., May 14, 1884:. 
Dear Friend: 

lam now in school in Tuskegee. I commenced in 1881. I have- 
had the luck to return to school every fall since then, soon after the 
opening of the school. But be assured that it took and now takes 
hard work on my part to do this. My school in vacation paid only 
$18.00 per month. On Saturdays I plowed for Mr. James Johnson 
and he allowed me from 50 to 60 cents per day. Sometimes I would 
not take the money, but would take meat and meal. In this way I 
managed to board myself. I have been doing this way every vacation. 
since 1881, and by so doing I keep myself in school. 



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^Z 



I would not have been so hard pressed in money matters, but the 
first year I came to school I had to borrow money to carry me through, 
for I had loaned all I had before coming. This money I had to re- 
turn when I opened my school after leaving school. So you see what 
circumstances I was put into. I have a chance to work out a part of 
my expenses while in school. 

I am expecting to teach in Pike county this summer near Troy, Ala, 
I am informed that the school will not pay much, so I am going to 
do there as I did in Russell, that is, teach during school-days and 
work Saturdays. 

Mr. R. B. Ballard is going to assist me in getting some work to do 
on Saturday. I am not ashamed to put my hand to any kind of hon- 
est labor. I see a blessing and beauty in it. I am trying to obtain 
an education that I may be able to go out into the world and do 
good for others. Yours truly, 

L. D. McCULLOUGH. 



A student's vacation work. 

Society Hill, Ala. 
Dear Miss D.: 

I will tell you about my school during vacation. 

On the 8th of June, 1883, I opened school on Forberst's Plantation, 
five miles from Society Hill, in Macon County, Ala. The people 
that lived on this plantation were thickly settled. They numbered 
one hundred and twenty, children and all. I found them very igno- 
rant. They knew little about Sunday school. Some of them had 
never left the plantation since their birth. 

The first day that I opened, fifteen pupils attended. My number 
increased daily. The school house was made of logs ; and it was cov- 
ered and ceiled with boards. The roof was flat. The rain instead 
of running off would pour in. It had no ventilation except the door. 
Most of the boards were pulled off to let the air in through the big 
cracks. My pupils increased to eighty-five. When I had about fifty 
I could scarcely find a place to stand. To remedy this, I requested 



24 TUSKEGEE : ITS STORY 

the patrons to build me a bush arbor : for the school room was not 
as large as a good sized bed room. The arbor was attached to the 
western end of the house. It was covered with bushes, which were 
cut and dragged by the boys. The seats were made under the arbor, 
also in the room, of pieces of unplaned plank laid across something 
like a stool. 

I employed a lady teacher to assist me. She taught under the ar- 
bor. I would send out two classes at a tim.e. I found this to be very 
pleasant except when it rained. When this occurred I would send 
the children to my boarding room for recitation. This was about fif- 
teen yards from the arbor. The children delighted in passing back- 
wards and forwards. It was some trouble to keep them quiet while 
passing. I taught on this plantation three months. My scholars 
learned very fast. They were obedient. It was seldom I ever used 
the rod. The patrons would visit the school every Friday evening to 
hear the children speak and sing. At the close of the school we had 
a big dinner, singing, speaking, acting, dialogues, &c., in the after- 
noon. My closing exercises were in the second story of a very large 
gin house. At the expiration of the three months the children and 
patrons had improved very much. I also had a nice Sunday school. 
Old and young attended. To elevate the people as much as I could, 
I would go up in the quarter every evening after school and spend 
some time in reading and talking to the old people, I would teach 
the girls how to make trimmings. Respectfully, 

JosiE A. Calhoun. 



HELPING one's SELF. 

I decided some time ago to educate myself in some way or other. 
I had several ways before me. Out of these I expected to obtain the 
means to keep me in school. I thought that I would teach school 
some, and go to school some. This failed to keep me just as I want- 
ed to; yet I desired to continue in school. Another was to ask help 
of my friends. I found that they didn't mean to be friends in a way 
like that. I looked about and found my aims still unfinished. When 



AND ITS SONGS. 25 

I saw that I could not get help in this most needy time, I thought of 
a fable that I once read. 

A bird had built its nest in a farmer's cornfield — it was near the time 
of harvest. She said to her young each day she left them, to listen 
to what you hear the farmer say. They did so, and delivered the 
message to her as soon as she returned. She said to them, you need 
not be afraid so long as he depends upon his neighbors : but when 
you hear him say he will reap the corn himself, then we had better 
be gone, for the work will be done. So it was with my friends. 
Now I have decided to help myself. 

I find this the only successful way. 

R. T. Wellborn. 



KEEPING HIMSELF IN SCHOOL BY DOING HIS OWN COOKING AND 
WASHING, AND CUTTING CORD WOOD. 

The following letter is from a young man who entered school when 
it was organized, and, although he then had a family, he has not re- 
mained out of his classes two whole months at a time during the 
three years. He has supported his family and walked a distance to 
and fro of 25 miles every week to see and assist his family. 
Dear friend: 

When the Tuskegee Normal School opened for the purpose of 
-training colored teachers for Public Schools of this State, I made up 
my mind to complete a normal course for that especial purpose. I en- 
tered school July 4th, 1881. After buying my books, I did not have 
enough money to pay for a month's board. I thought the best way to 
imake a little money go a long ways would be to hire my cooking done 
and pa}'' house rent. Six of us young men hired the lady of the house 
to do our cookiiag, each paying a dollar a month. By being business 
,manager for the lady, I made one dollar pay for two and a half months. 

A little later a friend told me that he would let me have a room 
free of charge and I could do my cooking. My money being out, I ac- 
cepted the offer gladly. When I did not go home to my family, I did 
my own washing. 



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During the vacation of our school, I taught school in Pike County- 
Ala., in the summer of 1882. I received eighty eight dollars for four 
months teaching. I came home in the fall and settled all my debts, 
and then entered school. Just before my school was out in Pike 
County, I wrote to one of the trustees of the Normal vSchool, telling 
him that I would have to begin at once to work so that I might stay 
in school when I entered, because it would take all my money to pay 
my debts and to buy the required number of books. 

He got a place for me at Mr. James Alexander's, where I could pay 
house rent by chopping wood and drawing water. I was paid extra for 
working in the garden and currying the horse. When school vacated 
in the summer of 1883, I went home to work on the farm that my wife 
was carrying on. Not making enough money to pay board in school, 
I returned to Mr. Alexander's, in the fall of 1883, on the same terms 
which have been mentioned. During the fall of 1883, I cut wood near- 
ly every evening and Saturdays and sometimes on Mondays ; I cut in 
all forty eight cords of wood at forty cents a cord. 

Being a poor boy, I always manifested a great interest in whatever 
I did for those who hired me, and numbers of times persons would 
pay me more than they agreed to pay at first. 

Yours, 

J. T. HOLLIS. 
Cotton Valley, Macon Co., Ala., June ^th, 1884. 



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TUSKEGEE : ITS STORY 



A N E W V I E W O F THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL. 



The classes, beginning with the first in the order of their advance- 
ment, are required to give items of current news each morning. This 
requirement is profitable in teaching the students to read newspapers 
and in broadening their ideas. Occasionally some very ludicrous 
things are developed in the course' of the exercise. 

A case in point. Shortly after the decision of the Supreme Court set- 
ting aside the Civil Rights Bill vras made, a boy on being asked to ex- 
plain the nature of the bill just declared unconstitutional, arose in his 
seat and very innocently said, "It v/as a bill introduced for the civili- 
zation of the Members of Congress" 



FATHER PERRY. 



There is a church near Tuskcgee which has a total membership 
■of two hundred, and nii'.eteen of these are preachers. Now, as before 
the war, there are a great number of unordained, irregular ministers 
among the colored people, mysteriously termed, with some implied 
disrespect of their irregularity, "jackleg preachers" ; licensed then by 
their master's will, now by their ability to attract a congregation; 
"called" by some Macedonian vision, or perhaps by the desire to help 
themselves to a living in an easy way. Ignorant of books and sys- 
tems, they understood thorouj^iily the art of winning the sympathies 
of their hearers and of firing them with their own fervid enthusiasm. 
With their advancement in other directions, the Negroes have ad- 
vanced in the intelligence and propriety of their modes of worship 
and the demand for an educated ministry. It will be well however 
if this one art of the old time preachers is not forgotten. 

Elder Thomas Perry — Father Perry, as he is familiarly called in 



AND ITS SONGS. 29. 

Tuskegee where he Still preaches as an evangelist though nearly eighty 
years of age — is an interesting representative of the old time preach- 
ers who are fast passing away. He is no "jackleg preacher," but one 
who has borne the burden and heat of the day, in bondage and free- 
dom, and by the purity and piety of his life and his devotion to his 
people's good, has won the respect and affection of a large circle of 
friends in both races. 

On a recent visit to his modest home, he was persuaded to give 
to some of the teachers from the Normal School some memories of 
his long life, interspersed now and then with a free expression of his 
opmions which are quite decided, like his character. 

"I was born," said Father Perry, "in Hancock Co. Ga. about 1805, 
as near as I can tell. But I have lived in five different counties in. 
Georgia, two in Alabama and one in Mississippi. I learned to read 
by toting my spelling book in my hand while plowing. I had no 
teacher but a little colored boy that I used to mate with. His young 
master had taught him." 

"What reader did you use ? " 

"If any, I dont remember. I did use the Testament a little — only 
by chances, now and then." 

"About how old were you when you thought of preaching ?" 

"I reckon I was about twenty-five." 

"Had you any encouragement from others to preach ?" 

'' Nothing that could be called encouragement. We went pretty 
much altogether on our own hooks in those days." 

"Suppose you give us a general sketch of your life." 

"I'm too old to remember all particularly, but I'll do the best I 
can. 

- I began to preach in Harris County, Georgia. I had no difficulty 
m getting the people together to hear me. I respected other people 
and noticed how respectable people act. That was how I won them. 

I never had any great difficulty in getting along. I have never 
been drunk in my life. I haven't done so well since the surrender as 
I did before. I have always had a large congregation wherever I 
have been. I believe I did greater work before the war than I have 



30 TUSKEGEE : ITS STORY 

done since. I was moved to preach simply by a sense of duty to 
help my people in the salvation of their souls. I met with no oppo- 
sition from white or colored. Many of the slave people professed 
Christ in our revivals. I was in with the white church and always 
had free access to the people. 

Most of my life, I have had charge of some church, I am now 
what they call an evangelist. Since the war I have been successful 
as a minister if I understand what the mission of a minister is. I 
understand that to be to convict sinners of their sins, and lead them 
to Christ, and so to talk to those who are already professors of the 
faith that they may be strengthened in their efforts to continue in the 
straight road. 

In getting up revivals, I have always first worked on myself ; then 
I would aim at the hearts of the Christians. If they didn't become 
warm in the time I had calculated on, I continued any how. I always 
tried to keep them from seeing any giving up on my part. During 
slavery, I was in revivals with white people quite frequently. Since 
the war, I have been in a revival every year. I don't like the way 
many camp meetings are carried on. I think they can be so conducted 
as to be of harm. I don't believe in selling on the camp grounds. It 
is a hindrance to the religious influence. The people visit the stands. 
They should be where the preaching is. 

On starting out to preach, and on finding out my deficiencies, I 
looked wholly to God. I determined from the first to learn what I 
could about the Scriptures, but I did not see at first how deficient I 
was ; that knowledge came gradually. I have paid some attention to 
the newspapers, but very little. I have confined my study mostly to 
the Bible and references to it. I have learned a great deal too by ar- 
gument and conversation with fellow laborers in the ministry. At the 
start, I firmly decided to say nothing in any assembly without a good 
motive. I don't believe in studied oratory in a preacher. I don't 
believe that is generally successful in getting up a revival. There 
is an inward feeling that it is contrary to the apostles' practice. There 
is a way, and there is something that is no way. Any thing that in- 
terferes with the working of the Holy Ghost is harmful. This is the 



AND ITS SONGS. 3I 

way I have always settled that question. I am also opposed to any 
extreme in what we call the natural way of preaching. I have been 
very much given to reproving my people. I have felt it my duty to 
do so. I think our young men should strip themselves of earth and 
preach the gospel. If there is no change, the people will all go 
wrong. My great desire is for my race to be united. I have always 
opposed having so many denominations among our race. There is 
too much opposition among us at this period of our growth. I have 
also found it injurious to religious work to have so many churches 
a mile or two apart. 

My life was spent before the war mostly in farming for the 
whites. I rented a farm after the war with another man. He failed, 
so it all fell on me. I wasn't able to meet it all, so I failed too. I 
haven't been sick in bed a day for forty years." 



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FATHER PERRY. 8o YEARS OLD. 



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33 



THE SHANTY SCHOOL AND CABIN HOME. 



All the while the farm was being paid for, we were going daily to 
school in the old church and shanty. The latter was at least well 
ventilated. There was one thickness of boards above and around us, 
and this was full of large cracks. Part of the windows had no sashes 
and were closed with rough wooden shutters that opened upward by 
leathern hinges. Other windows had sashes but little glass in them. 
Through all these openings the hot sun or cold wind and rain came 
pouring in upon us. Many a time, a storm would leave scarcely a 
dry spot in either of the two rooms into which the shanty was divided 
to make room for separate classes. These divisions were small, but 
into them, large classes of thirty or forty had to be crowded for reci- 
tations. 

But if the discomforts of the school room were great, many of the 
students had even greater ones in their home life. The colored peo- 
ple of Tuskegee generally are poor, and have few of the commonest 
comforts of life. Some of their houses are miserable hovels, letting 
in the cold and rain even more freely than do our school shanties. In 
rainy seasons, the students, after sitting all day in damp clothes and 
wet school room, had to go at night to boarding places where these 
and other discomforts were multiplied. In spite of all these disad- 
vantages, they pursued their studies with cheerfulness and earnestness 
Some indeed seemed scarcely to realize that they needed anything bet- 
ter, but it was felt by us who had the work in charge that much more 
ought to be done towards teaching them to live better lives in every 
way, than could possibly be done as they were situated. We could 
not reach them surrounded constantly as they were by influences in 
every way the opposite of elevating. We felt this especially for the 
girls. They were scattered about over the town in boarding houses, 
some of which our judgment condemned, while we could see them 
only for the few hours of the day when all were busy with recitations. 
Our most pressing need was a building into which we could gather 
both our girls and our boys, not only for school teaching but home 
teaching, for homes are what our people need. 



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TUSKEGEE : ITS STORY 



JOHNSON'S ''KYARRIAGE." 



In Alabama, very few of the colored people have acquired homes 
of their own ; the majority are still living on lands owned by former 
masters. Immediately after the abolition of slavery, all were filled 
with the brightest anticipations of what freedom was to bring them. 
But here, as in some other parts of the South, the mortgage system of 
paying rent is common, and has conquered the freedman, in spite of 
his struggles. 

Ten years ago, if you talked to one of these farmers, he had bright 
visions of the future to tell you. He was in the midst oftroubles he does 
not now meet, but, as his song went, " 'T would be better furderon." 
Talk to him now, and you are struck by the entire want of hopeful 
expressions. Year after year of hard but vain toil has crushed all 
hope out of him, and he has settled stolidly down to his fate of get- 
ting barely sufficient rations to keep soul and body together, paying 
his rent and clearing at the end of the year a large debt with which 
to begin the new one. 

The fact that few of these colored farmers under the mortgage 
system ever come out ahead, is due to more causes than one, and 
perhaps one of the main causes is their own mismanagernent ; but the 
fact remains, and t'is the fact that has discouraged them. To one 
idea, however, the freedman has clung, through all his hardships and 
failures. That is the idea of education, if not for himself, for his 
children. It is through this feelmg almost entirely that this people 
must be reached and helped. 

The minister of a colored Baptist church in Tuskegee said to me 
recently ; "Ah, I tells yer, dis yere freedom aint what we culle'd ones 
t'ought it ud be afore it comed. 

I t'ought when I was sot free, I'd soon hab a fine hoss, an' a 
kyarriage an' sarvents to drive me roun' ! But Johnson's ben a' work- 



AND ITS SONG. 35 

in' ebber sence de s'render, an' he aint got no fine hoss an kyarriage 
yet. He got one ole mule an' a wagon, an' dey all he spec's to git to 
kyarry him roun'.: Ef he kin on'y git togedder 'nuflf to feed an' 
clothe him, an' sen' his chillens to school, its all he spec's to git." "But," 
he added with earnestness ! "I tanks God I's free to hab all dat " 

Education is the freedman's carriage, and with the team of will 
and work, — with some charitable oiling of the wheels — it will carry his 
children up the steep hill before them. 



36 TUSKEGEE : ITS STORY 

EXTRACTS FROM "SOUTHERN 
LETTER." 



Published Monthly by the Tuskegee Normal SchooL 

B. T. Washington, Editor. 
Warren Logan, Business Manager. 



At least fifty of our students will teach in the public schools of 
the State during the summer. 

A blacksmith shop is now being built by the students. 

Nine young men are learning the carpenter's trade. 

Young men and young women, life is before you. It is in 'your 
power to choose now whether you will all through life be the slave of 
ignorance or a complete man or woman developed as God meant you 
to be. « 

Our population numbers 50,000 000, and one eighth, or 6,240 000 
over the age of ten years, are illiterate. Assigned geographically, in 
the North there are 1,340,000 illiterate whites and 156,000 illiterate 
Negroes ; in the South, 1,676,000 illiterate whites and 3,064,000 illiter- 
ate Negroes. 

The Model School closed with an interesting exhibition on Tues- 
day night. May 27. A large number of parents and visitors were present. 

The annual meeting of the Alabama State Teachers' Association 
took place at the Tuskegee Normal School building on April 19th, con- 
tinuing two days. The leading mstitutions and public schools of the 
State were represented, and the attendance was large and interesting. 

Alabama is paying $9000 annually towards the support of colored 
normal schools. There are three in the State. Tuskegee is the only 
industrial school. 



AND ITS SONGS. 37 

We keep three points in view: Fiist, to give the best mental 
training; second, to furnish the student labor that will be valuable to 
the school and that will enable the student to learn something from 
the worlc within itself; third, to teach the dignity of labor. 

The work department well systematized can be carried on with 
-almost no loss to the student in his classes. 

"We see now why reconstruction failed. Not because the con- 
stituency was black but because the mass was ignorant, and no com- 
munity, black or white, can safely sit by and submit to be ruled by 
ignorant suffrage." — Prof. R. T. Greener. 

An interesting feature of the industrial work on Anniversary day 
at Tuskegee this year was a general exhibit of industries in the libi'ary 
where, arranged in attractive order, were a rustic chair, a neatly made 
table and wash-stand from the Slater carpenter shop ; bricks from the 
brick yard ; samples of oats, beans, potatoes, onions, collards etc., from 
1;he farm ; dresses, shirts, trimmings, crocheted mats and shawls, etc., 
from the girls' Industrial Room ; maps drawn by geography classes^ 
geometrical figures, by the geometry class ; herbariums from the botany 
class, and compositiosns, etc., from the grammar and rhetoric classes. 

Our carpenter, assisted by several students, is getting out the win- 
daw and door;facings for Alabama Hall. The work is being done in 
the Slater carpenter shop. 

Ground has been broken for Alabama Hall, and $6,000 of the $10, 
000 which it is to cost has been raised. We have faith to believe that 
vour, friends .willjjiv^ the remaining $4,000. 



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OUTSIDE TESTIMONY. 



A few extracts from letters and reports of Northern and South- 
ern visitors of the Tuskegee Normal School, give testimony to the 
favor with which it is regarded by those who have been there or are 
familiar with its workings. 



FROM A LETTER OF GEN. J. F. B. MARSHALL, 

^ Treasurer of the Hampton Norinal and Agricultural Institjii'e, Hampton, Fa.^ 
To Sozitkern Workman of May, iSSj, J^ 

•'A few day's rest fromoffice duties being enjoined upon me re- 
cently, I determined to pay a visit to the Tuskegee School, in which 
the faculty and teachers of Hampton Institute naturally feel a special 
interest. 

Tuskegee is one of the very oldjtowns of the State, an attractive 
place of about twenty-five hundredjnhabitants, having several colleges 
and academies of high repute for the white youth of both sexes. I was 
glad to find a very strong temperance sentiment here. There were 
only two bars in town and they pay a license of about nine hundred 
dollars each. No better location could have'.been chosen. 

The leading white citizens of the place appreciate the import- 
ance of Mr. Washington's work and speak of him in high terms. He 
has evidently won the the esteem and confidence of all. Mr Foster, 
the present speaker of the House, in the State Legislature, lives here, 
and rendered valuable aid in getting the increased appropriation of the 
State for Mr. Washington of whom he spoke to me in high praise. 

I am reminded by everything I see here of our own beginnings 
and methods at Hampton. [I found'^on' my!! arriva^at the school, 
which is about a mile from the village centre, a handsome frame build- 
ing of two stories and a mansard roof. ^Though not yet finished, it is 
occupied as a school building and is very conveniently planned for the 



40 TUSKEGEE : ITS STORY 

purpose, reminding me of tlie Academic Hall at Hampton. The pri- 
mary school on the Normal school grounds bears the same relation to 
it, as a practice school, that the Butler does to the Hampton Institute. 
It has 250 children on the roll. They are stowed away in what was 
the stable, close as crayons in a Waltham box. Let us hope they 
will all make their mark. 

All six teachers of the Normal and training schools are colored; 
and to their race belongs all the credit of the work accomplished here 
and of the judicious use of the funds which the friends of the school 
through the efforts of Mr. Washington and Miss Davidson, have con- 
tributed. 

The experiment, thus far so successful, is one of deep interest to 
all who have the welfare of the race at heart and should not be suffered 
to fail for want of means for its completion. It is vital to the success of 
this school that the students should all be brought under the train- 
ing and supervision of the teachers by being boarded and lodged on 
the premises. Our experience at Hampton has shown the necessity 
of this. I know of no more worthy object or one conducive to more 
important results than this school enterprise, and I trust the friends 
of Negro advancement and education will not suffer it to languish or 
be hampered for funds. They may rest assured that these will be 
wisely expended and most worthily bestowed. 

My three days' visit to Tuskegeewas eminently satisfactory and has 
inspired me with new hope for the future of the race." 



FROM THE LADY PRINCIPAL OF HAMPTON INSTITUTE. 

May, 1884. 

"The wish constantly on my my lips or in my heart, since I reach- 
ed here last evening is that you could see this school. I am sure you 
would feel, as 1 do, that the dial of time must have turned back twelve 
years in its course. In many respects it is more like the Hampton I 
first knew than the one of to-day is ; I was particularly struck by the 
plantation melodies which Mr. Washington called for at the close of 
the evening prayers ; there is more of the real wail in their music 



AND ITS SONGS. 



41 




42 TUSKEGEE : ITS STORY 

than I ever heard elsewhere. The teachers here laugh over 
their exact imitation of the alma iiiater ; even the night school feat- 
ure has sprouted ; to be sure it only numbers two students, but it is on 

the same plan as ours. Do you know that Mr. has lately g iven 

them 44.0 acres of land, making their farm now 580 acres ?" 



FROM REV. R. C. BEDFORD, 

Of the American Missionary Association : pasto-r of Congregational church in Mont— 
g07nery^ Ala. , 

Montgomery, Ala, March ist, 1884. 

Gen. S. C. Armstrong : 

Dear Sir : 
\ 
A short time ago I made a trip to Tuskegee, Ala. for the purpose- 

of visiting the State Normal School for colored people located there,, 
four of whose five teachers, together with the wife of the Principal,, 
were once pupils of yours at Hampton Institute. * * * I attend- 
ed the session of the school for two days and was exceedingly pleased 
with the enthusiastic spirit of both teachers and pupils. One of the- 
encouraging features of the school is the warm interest it has in- 
spired in many of the leading white citizens of Tuskegee. Mr. G. W.. 
Campbell and Mr. Wm. B. Swanson are among the oldest and most- 
respected citizens of Macon County. They with Mr. Lewis Adams^ 
a prominent colored man, constitute the State Board of Commission- 
ers for the School. Colonel Bowen, Mr. Varner, and Col. W. F. 
Foster — speaker of the present Legislature — all citizens of Tuskegee 
and familiar with the school, aream^ng its warmest friends. A short 
time ago, in conversation with Hon. H. Cla}' Armstrong, our State 
Sup't. of Education, I learned that he was so much pleased with the 
work of Mr. V/ashington and his associates as to recommend to the- 
Committee on Education to report a bill giving $1000 per j^ear ad- 
ditional to the school. I was present during the debate on the bill- 
So interested was Col. Foster in its passage that he left the Speaker's 
chair, and upon the floor of the House, in an eloquent and effective 



AND ITS SONGS. 43 

Speech, urged that it pass. He sat down, and at once, by a vote of 59 
to 18, the bill passed ; and is now a law. 

With this example before us, we need have no fear as to what 
the colored people can do if, like Mr. Washington and his associates 
and^pupils, they will take hold to win." 



FROM THE REPORT FOR 1881-82 OF HON. H. CLAY ARMSTRONG, 

State Superintendent 0/ Edttcation 0/ Alabama. 

"The Normal Schools are each in a prospering condition and 
doing faithful and efficient work. I deem it a privilege as well as 
duty, to make special mention of the school located at Tuskegee. 

Though only authorized by an Act of Assembly approved March 
I St, 1 88 1, the friends of the enterprise proceeded at once to organ- 
ize the School and to solicit funds in its aid. They have already 
raised by subscription, independently of the State appropriation, the 
sum of $1,521.94, and have erected a structure imposing in appear- 
ance to which they can point with exultant pride. For special par- 
ticulars concerning tliis and other schools, I would invite your at- 
tention to the full and comprehensive reports accompanying and 
made a part of the report." 



KROM A SOUTHERN WHITE DEMOCRATIC JOURNAL, 
THE TUSKEGEE WEEKLY NEWS. 
From an article of a column and a half in its isssue of June j,. 



"This institution was established by an act of the Legislature of 
Alabama approved March i, i88i,and $2000 was appropriated out of 
the general school- revenue set apart for the colored children. * * 

* * The school has just closed its third session and the exer- 
cises last Thursday were interestmg, reflecting credit upon teachers 
and pupils. * * The property is deeded to a board of trustees 
including G. W. Campbell, President, M. B. Swanson and Lewis. 



44 TUSKEGEE : ITS STORY 

Adams, the two first being the leading and most successful busi- 
ness men and among the most influential citizens cf the community ; 
the latter is an industrious, deserving, intelligent colored man, who 
has the respect of his own race and the confidence of the whites. * * 
Prof. B. T. Washington, the Principal, seems fully alive to the 
education of his race, and he is modest and retiring in disposition, 
seemingly desirous of the good will and respect of the whites. His 
efforts have been toward a wholesome and beneficial education of the 
pupils under his care, and we believe he has the respect of the com- 

The School adds greatly to the trade of Tuskegee, and the pre- 
judice that existed against it at first is fact disappearing, and when its 
object and designs come to be fully understood, such feelings will 
not exist at all. * * * * * * * * * * 

The buildings are not yet ample for the accommodation of the 
school, and the friends of the cause of education and of the colored 
race can find no better or more deserving place for practical aid and 
encouragement to that end. Of all the schools for the education of 
the colored people in Alabama, the Tuskegee Normal School stands 
at the head, and this is due to the excellent management and sound 
judgment of the Principal, to whom cannot be accorded too much 
praise by his race." 



FKOM REV. PHILLIPS BROOKS, D. D. 

-SJ Clarendon Street, Boston July j, /88^. 
Mr. B. T. Washington, 

My Dear Sir : 

I am very glad to repeat what I said the other day, that I have 
great confidence in the purposes and methods of your work, and I 
wish you all success in your efforts to secure for it support and sym- 
pathy. 

Yours most sincerely, 

Phillips Brooks. 



AND ITS SONGS. 45, 

FROM KEV. GEO. B. SPAULDING, D. D. 

Manchester, N. H. June 2^, 1ZZ4. 

The colored labor school offers the best solution of the race- 
problem at the South. To help the students under Principal Wash- 
ington in their effort to build a new school house will prove no little 
help to this great cause. I can testify to the great merits of Mr-- 
Robert Hamilton as leader of the Hampton Singers. His concert 
will not fail to be a great enjoyment to all lovers of music — and the- 
noble cause he represents will heighten the pleasure . 

Geo. B. Spaulding. 



FROM REV. ALEXANDERlMcKEXZIE, D. D. 

Cambridge, Mass. June 26, 1ZZ4. 

I am happy to commend Mr. Booker T. Washington as a trust-- 
worthy and capable man, who is doing an excellent work in the 
Normal School with which he is connected as Principal. He is 
worthy of confidence and esteem; this present effort to secure funds 
for the most important work in which he is engaged deserves the 
approval of all who are interested in the welfare of the colored peo- 
ple. 

The music which will be furnished by Mr. Washington and his 
associates is well known to those who have visited Hampton, and every 
one of them will speak in its praise. 

Alexander McKenzie. 



FROM GEN. S. C ARMSTRONG. 

The Tuskegee Normal School in charge of Mr. Booker T. Wash- 
ington with nine assistants, all colored, is, I believe, the best work of 
its kind in the country under Negro control, and is worthy to be 
compared with any for that race in the United States. 

Situated in the black belt of Alabama, amidst a dense and! de- 
graded people, it gives them what they need most and what they 



46 TUSKEGEE : ITS STORY. 

need now : a training of the head, hand and heart ; with a view of 
diffusing, through its graduates, a like teaching among the ignorant 
masses of that region. 

Its 530 acres of wooded and 50 of cultivated land. Porter Hall» 
costing $6,500, besides brick-yard, carpenter and blacksmith shops, 
all paid for; with 169 pupils of both sexes, average age 18 years, 
fifty of whom are teaching during the summer ; besides six thousand 
dollars already secured towards a much needed building for girls' 
domitories and other purposes, to cost $10,000, — make a most encour- 
aging showing, and a foundation for larger things. 

The annual State appropriation of $3000, is a practical endorse- 
ment by the whites of the State of great value and meaning ; the 
property is, however, in private hands. 

I have known Mr. Washington for over eight years, and regard 
him as one of the foremost men of his race, its leader in Alabama, and 
deserving of encouragement from all. 

S. C. Armstrong, 
Principal Hanipto7t Institute, Virginia. 



FROM GEN. J. F. B. MARSHALL. 

I heartily endorse all that General Armstrong has said about this 
school, and a recent visit to Tuskegee has only strengthened my 
confidence in the ability of Mr. Washington and Miss Davidson to 
carry on successfully the important work they have undertaken. 

J. F. B. Marshall, 
Treasurer and Asst. Principal, Ha^npton Institute. 



AND ITS SONGS 




CABIN 



AND 



PLANTATION SONGS, 



AS SUNG BY THE 



TosKEGEE Singers. 

ARRANGED BY 

OF HAMPTON INSniUTE, VA, 



PREFACE TO MUSIC 



These songs have not, to our knowledge, been reduced to music 
before. We have endeavored to preserve the melodies as we heard them 
sung by the students at Tuskegee. They seem, in the main, to differ 
in character from those of the more northerly of the Southern States. 

It is impossible to represent all the peculiar turns and quavers 
heard when these songs are sung by large gatherings of colored people 
in the South ; and even if it were possible, it would be almost useless, 
for few musicians would be able to interpret them. 

In reducing these melodies to writing, we have the double task of 
trying to preserve the original characteristics and at the same time 
make them intelligible through musical signs. The natural harmonies, 
as far as allowable, have been followed. Here and there effects have 
been introduced in the harmony parts, to assist in their rendition by 
so few voices. The great charm about many of the plantation melo- 
dies consists in the strength of the chorus and the "vzm" with 
w'hich they are sung. 

We have added a few pieces of negro music belonging to the 
period since emancipation, which we hope will prove none the less 
acceptable to purchasers of this book. 

The words in these songs are common property. They are 
heard in all sections of the South, but set to different melodies. Many 
of the verses are irregular; familiarity with the melody and first verse 
will soon enable any one to adapt the others to the music. 

R. H. Hamilton. 
Hampton, Va., July, 1S84. 




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Tell them I am coming now, going to 

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Judge this world for actions here. 

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3. When I was lying at hell's dark door, 
Never did lie so low before, 

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T^ Go in peace, sin no more, sin no more, sin no more. 
Go in peace sin no more. 
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For the angels bid me to come. 

3. As I went down in the valley for to pray, 

The angels bid me to come, 
When I got there, old Satan was there. 
For the angels bid me to come. 



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5. Old Satan is a liar and a conjurer too, 

The angels bid me to come. 
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For the angels bid me to come. 



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The angels bid me to come. 
Tell God's children I'm coming too, 
For the angels' bid me to come. 



7. The tallest tree in Paradise. 
The angels bid me to come. 
The Christian calls it the tree of life, 
For the angels bid me to come. 



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Oh ! hoist your flag children. 

Oh ! hoist your flag children. 

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3d Voice. — I'm Baptist bred and Baptist born. 

And when I am dead there's a Baptist gone. — Chorus. 
4th Voice. — I,m Presbyterian bred, I'm Presbyterian bom. 

And when I am dead there's a Presbyterian gone.— CHORUS., 
5th Voice. — I'm Christian bred and Christian born. 

And when I'm dead there's a Christian gone. 



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Look like the Father and the Son at his side. 

M I thank God. 

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Going to judge this world from East to West, 

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Is there any body here getting ready to die? 

3. We hear poor sinners crying then. 

Is there any body liere getting ready to die? 
Rocks, hills and mountains fall on me, 

Is there any body here getting ready to die? 

4. The Sa\dour say depart from me, 

Is there any body here getting ready to die? 
Go down to hell that's prepared for you, 
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The world is but a snare. 

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Believer to that land above. 
Oh ! believer to that land above. 
Believer to that land above. 

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Ride in the chariot in the morn. 

" Seeker ride in the chariot in the mom, 
Oh ! seeker ride in the chariot in the mom. 
Seeker ride in the chariot in the morn. 

4. Ij: I think I heard my Saviour say, :|| 
The fore wheels will run by faith. 
Mourner the fore wheels run by faith, 
Oh! mourner the fore wheels run by faith. 
Mourner the fore wheels run by faitli. 



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The hind wheels will run by grace. 
Elder the hind wheels will run by grace. 
Oh ! elder the hind wheels Avill run by gracey 
Elder the hind wheels will run by grace. 

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The inside's lined with gold ; 
Sister the inside's lined with gold. 
Oh ! sister the inside's lined with gold, 
Sister the inside's lined with gold. 

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Walk the golden streets, 
Preacher walk the golden streets. 
Oh ! preacher walk the golden streets, 
Preacher walk the golden streets. 




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Ever hope on. 
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Our future new triumph gains. 
Then in fields lying white before us, 

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May our hands be strong and willing, 

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Sister you say you love the Lord. 

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3. Deacon you say you love King Jesus, 
Deacon you say you love the Lord. 

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Preach and let us know how you love the Lord. 

4. Brother you say you love King Jesus, 
Brother you say you love the Lord. 

Refrain. — Oh, pray and let us know how you love King Jesus, 
Pray and let us know how you love the Lord. 

5. Mourner you say you love King Jesus, 
Mourner you say you love the Lord. 

Refrain. — Oh, mourn and let us know how you love King Jesus, 
Mourn and let us know how you love the Lord. 

6. Children you say you love King Jesus, 
Children you say you love the Lord. 

Refrain. — Oh, sing and let us know how you love King Jesus, 
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4. The very next blessing sister Mary had, 

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5. The very next blessing sister Maiy had, 

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6. The very next blessing sister Mary had, 

It was the blessing of six. 

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7. The very next blessing sister Mary had. 

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8. The very next blessing sister Mary had. 

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10. The very next blessing sister Mary had. 
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12. The very next blessing sister Mary had. 

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Until the war is ended. — Chorus. 
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My Saviour died and why not I, 

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She's always up and never is down. 
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